63rd Venice International Film Festival
The 63rd International Film Festival of Venice ( 63 Mostra internazionale d' arte cinematografica ) were held to 9 September 2006 of August 30. The film festival, which is counted alongside the International Film Festival of Cannes and the Berlinale of the most important film festivals, takes place since 1932 every year in August and September in Venice instead. 2006 Film Festival opened with Brian De Palma's thriller The Black Dahlia. In addition to this film took another twenty and a previously unannounced " surprise film " in the competition for the Golden Lion, the main prize of the festival, in part. In the three main sections - the main competition, the section Orizzonti and the short film competition Corta Cortissimo - were 62 films from 27 countries to see who had been selected from over 2,500 entries. To see for the first time at the film festival of Venice were films from Chad, Cyprus and Indonesia. A total of 2,589 films were shown at the eleven-day event, including 1,429 feature films.
The Golden Lion finally went to the Chinese Jia Zhangke for his film Still Life. Only the winners for the Golden Lion prize for his life's work was already fixed in advance; the American director and screenwriter David Lynch, among other things, Blue Velvet and Mulholland Drive - has become known road of darkness, received the award.
Competition
Jury
President of the jury in 2006 was the French actress Catherine Deneuve, who had been in 1998, awarded for her performance in the crime drama Place Vendôme at the Biennale, as the Film Festival in Venice are often referred to with the Coppa Volpi for Best Actress.
Deneuve was assisted by the Italian actor and director Michele Placido, who had received the Fedic Prize in 1998 and was represented with two other directorial work in 2002 and 2004 in competition. The already twice in Venice excellent, Spanish director Bigas Luna was and screenwriter as well as the Portuguese producer of, among other Far Side of the World, Paulo Branco, part of the jury. The American film director, screenwriter and producer Cameron Crowe, the Russian actress Chulpan Nailjewna Khamatova and South Korean director and screenwriter Park Chan -wook completed the competition jury.
Movies
The first time since 1945, celebrated all films shown in competition its premiere at the Venice Film Festival. The festival director Marco Müller originally wanted Tom Tykwer 50 million expensive Literaturverfilmung Perfume - The Story of a Murderer as the opening film for the festival on the Lido, the German production company Constantin Film but decided not starting.
The only German -language film in the competition this year was falling of the Austrian Barbara Albert, whose film had run northern edge in competition at the Film Festival in 1999 and had received for the Nina Proll the Marcello Mastroianni - Award as best young actress. Traps, which is about the reunion of five women after fourteen years, is the first Austrian competition entry in Venice since Ulrich Seidl's Dog Days 2001. Daratt the Czech Ader's Mahamat -Saleh Haroun, the only African film in the competition, was co-produced by Austria. Exclusively produced by Germany films were like last year, not in competition. The Black Dahlia by the American Brian De Palma starring Josh Hartnett, Aaron Eckhart and Scarlett Johansson in the lead roles and the gambling in WWII thriller Black Book of the Dutchman Paul Verhoeven were co-produced by Germany.
The United States was represented by five films. So Darren Aronofsky celebrated with his sci-fi drama The Fountain with Hugh Jackman and Rachel Weisz in the lead roles the premiere of his first film after six years. He had succeeded with his first two feature films Pi and Requiem for a Dream big success at film festivals and film awards. In addition to those already mentioned, The Black Dahlia and The Fountain could also Allen Coulter's Hollywoodland with Adrien Brody and Diane Lane and Emilio Estevez's film adaptation of the background of the assassination, Robert F. Kennedy, Bobby, starring Anthony Hopkins and Demi Moore at the Golden Lion. hoping Alfonso Cuarón, who as early as 2001 with Y Tu Mamá También - had been represented Lust for Life competition and it won the screenplay prize, presented in Venice his science - fiction thriller Children of Men, starring Clive Owen and Julianne Moore. Stephen Frears ' portrait of Queen Elizabeth II with Helen Mirren in the title role and Michael Sheen as Tony Blair launched under the title The Queen. The Frenchman Benoît Jacquot, who had already participated twice with films in competition at the film festival in 2006 was with his work L' intouchable it.
The anime director Katsuhiro Otomo presented with Mushishi, a film based on the manga series by Yuki Urushibara, his second live-action film after World Apartment Horror from the year 1991. The only animated film in competition was pepper of the Japanese Satoshi Kon, the films such as Perfect Blue and Tokyo Godfathers had found wide acclaim from critics. Other East Asian representatives in the competition were Jia Zhangkes Still Life, Johnnie Fong juk, Apichatpong Weerasethakul Sang Sattawat and Tsai Ming- Liang Hei Yanquan. The participation of Still Life was announced during the festival as a " surprise film ".
Award winners
Against 21 other films for the Golden Lion for best film, the Chinese Jia Zhangke was at the realistically filmed drama Still Life, which treats critically the impact of the Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze River. The decision of the jury was as surprising as the majority of the press rather expected a the English-speaking films as the winner of the Golden Lion and Still Life at the last minute, as a " surprise film ", was re-nominated. Zhangke had been previously represented twice in competition at the Biennale.
The Silver Lion for best director Alain Resnais won for his theatrical film adaptation of the heart, the Special Prize awarded by the jury of the political parable Daratt of Mahamat - Saleh Haroun. The acting awards, the Coppa Volpi, Ben Affleck received for Hollywoodland and Helen Mirren for The Queen. Peter Morgan for The Queen also received the award for best screenplay. The young actor award at the festival, the Marcello Mastroianni Award -, Isild Le Besco won for L' intouchable. A Silver Lion for best newcomer, the jury Emanuele Crialese for Golden Door. The cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki was honored for his work on Children of Men for the best technical contribution.
The Director - pair Jean -Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet was awarded with a Special Lion for the " renewal of the language of cinema ". The 73 -year-old Straub did not appear at the festival, because he did not want to attend an event in which so much public and private police looking for terrorists.
Orizzonti
In the section Orizzonti that the new ways of cinema dedicated to the film Akamas of the Greek Cypriot documentary filmmaker Panicos Chrysanthou was shown. However, the Cypriot government did not want the film that shows the political history of the country from the 1950s to 1975, is listed and wanted Chrysanthou withdraws the movie. In the same section of the German director Edgar Reitz was the fourth part of his home - movie series and Douglas McGrath 's film adaptation of Truman Capote's life, Infamous, with Toby Jones and Sandra Bullock.
Among the 24 feature films and documentaries that were shown in the Section and who could make hopes on the two prices of the section, there were also, for example, The Hottest State of the American actor Ethan Hawke, who ensure that the film adaptation of his own novel presented, and by Mamoru Oshii Tachiguishi Retsuden. The latter film is a mix of animation, computer animation and live action. For example, Alain Robbe -Grillet and Shinji Aoyama also showed their new films in the section horizons.
The jury in the section led to the German director Philip Groening. Other members of the jury were the Italian director Carlo Carlei, who also Italian, screenwriter Giuseppe Genna, the Japanese producer Keiko Kusakabe and the Egyptian director Yousri Nasrallah.
The Orizzonti Prize, which was endowed with 10,000 euros in 2006, Liu Jie won for Mabei shang de fating. The Orizzonti Doc Prize went to Spike Lee for his lasting over four hours, When the Levees Broke documentation about Hurricane Katrina.
Corta Cortissimo
Seventeen short films, all under thirty minutes from fifteen countries were competing for the Corta- Cortissimo lion. As president of the jury of three in this section served the South African producer and director Teboho Mahlatsi, which had been in 1999 at the Lido won the Silver Lion for Best Short Film in 2004 and with a Human Rights Award at the Film Festival in Venice. Outside the contest he showed his latest work Sekalli sa Meokgo.
The Corta- Cortissimo Lion eventually went to the 18- minute film Comment on Freine dans une descente? the French Alix Delaporte. You could defend yourself against two German participants, Detectives by Andreas Goldstein and Rien ne va plus by Katja Pratschke and Gusztáv Hamos, prevail. During the Malaysians Yeo Joon Han for Adults only received a special mention, the Briton Daniel Elliott won the UIP Prize for Best European Short Film for The Making of Parts.
Films out of competition
David Lynch's tenth feature film, the Mystery Drama Inland Empire Laura Dern in the lead role, was also shown in Venice as the tarnished in Japanese theaters in July 2006 anime film Tales from Earthsea by Goro Miyazaki, whose father Hayao Miyazaki in the previous year was awarded the Golden Lion honorary Award. Oliver Stone showed his already since August 9 running in the U.S. and Canadian cinemas Drama World Trade Center terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 in the USA, starring Nicolas Cage and Michael Peña. David Frankel was also performed outside the competition The Devil Wears Prada, which ran back in June in the American cinema, and by the director of a prestigious fashion magazine, played by Meryl Streep, is.
After 2004, a number of older Italian films were shown as Secret History of Italian cinema and 2005 some older Asian films as Secret History of Asian film, you put it in 2006 continued with a Secret History of Russian cinema. We have shown some newly discovered and restored films. The Secret History of Italian film was a second sequel.
Retrospectives during the festival was devoted addition to the Brazilian director Joaquim Pedro de Andrade three great Italian filmmakers Roberto Rossellini, Mario Soldati and Luchino Visconti. In commemoration of the centenary of the birth Rossellini be Rome, Open City, was shown from the year 1945 on August 29, before the actual festival in a restored version.
Competition with the Festa del Cinema di Roma internazionale
In October, the first time the Festa del Cinema di Roma internazionale should take place in Rome, a film festival, which should be more popular and more representative of the Italian State. Although the plan was to build the new because of his age much criticized Palazzo del Cinema in Venice, but feared that the government would rather support the new, still adopted under the government of Silvio Berlusconi Festival in Rome, which has a new building to offer and where, for example, Steven Shainbergs Fur in October - was listed An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus Nicole Kidman in the lead role.